Since the late 1990s, artist Tony Oursler (born 1957) has amassed a vast personal archive of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, film, television, phantasmagoria, pseudoscience and technology. For Oursler, the archive functions as an open visual resource, historical inquiry and--most intriguingly--a family history. One of the collection's many digressions records the friendship between the artist's grandfather Charles Fulton Oursler--a famous early 20th-century author and publisher--and magician and ...
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Since the late 1990s, artist Tony Oursler (born 1957) has amassed a vast personal archive of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, film, television, phantasmagoria, pseudoscience and technology. For Oursler, the archive functions as an open visual resource, historical inquiry and--most intriguingly--a family history. One of the collection's many digressions records the friendship between the artist's grandfather Charles Fulton Oursler--a famous early 20th-century author and publisher--and magician and escapologist Harry Houdini, and a historic interaction with Arthur Conan Doyle, who, beyond his Sherlock Holmes series, was an important advocate for spiritualism and the paranormal. This publication features up to 1,500 objects from Oursler's collection, including photographs, prints, historic manuscripts, rare books, letters and objects. Additional topics include stage magic, thought photography, demonology, cryptozoology, optics, mesmerism, automatic writing, hypnotism, fairies, cults, the occult, color theory and UFOs.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Exhibition Catalogue. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Softcover with dust jacket affixed to spine in heavy-weight unfinished cardboard slipcase with white lettering, all as issued. no flaws or wear. clean. no writing, markings, or labels. no bumps, tears, creases. tight binding, sewn and glued. appears unused. two review clippings laid-in. parallel text, french/english.; 655pp., illustrated throughout in color, with some b/w period photos, and the like.15 essays and articles by various contributors. immense collection of ephemera, photographs, objects assembled by contemporary artist, tony oursler. an exhibition of the archives was the occasion for this remarkable catalogue.
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